Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke
Zum Autor"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
"Custom reconciles us to everything."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."
"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."